Beau Geste - Parodies

Parodies

• Beau Hunks 1931, a 1931 movie starring Laurel and Hardy.
• The Goon Show episode "Under Two Floorboards (A Story of the Legion)" (1955)
• Follow that Camel (1967) A Carry on film.
• "Round the Horne, s04e14" (1968) Beau - Arbuthnot Nidle, known to his friends as Beau Nidle is accused of stealing a priceless Manchester City Supporters' Club scarf
• The Generation Game (around 1975) did a parody of Beau Geste, may have been the first to use the names Beau Peep and Beau Nidle.
• The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977), starring Marty Feldman, Ann-Margret and Michael York
• Soul Music (1994), by Terry Pratchett. The Death of the Discworld uses the name Beau Nidle and has him join the Klatchian Foreign Legion, a parody of the French Foreign Legion.

• The comic strip Crock claims to be "the greatest and longest-running parody" of Beau Geste, although it bears little similarity to the original novel.
• A popular comic strip entitled Beau Peep has featured in British newspapers and separate anthologies since 1977. This version has a distinctive identity in its own right and a large fan base.
• In the early 1980s, Beau Geste was a recurring story arc in Charles Schulz's comic strip Peanuts, during which Snoopy was a leader of a squad of Legionnaires (usually played by birds, Snoopy's "Beagle Scouts") and Ft. Zinderneuf was Snoopy's doghouse.

In the Uk logic puzzle compendium series of puzzle books, a regular character used in the backstory panel guides is Beau Nidle